No one is being persecuted. It is correct to suspect.

In a murder investigation the police start with those closest related to the victim. If money is missing from a bank vault you start your investigation looking at all those who had access.

When a pandemic starts outside of a lab studying the same kind of virus tearing through the world you start with the lab.

We will likely never know for sure, but it is absolutely reasonable to suspect.

Too put it even more simply, if most most of the world is prepared to do contact tracing on an average person for having been anywhere near the virus, then the lab should not be above due diligence.

The prevailing theory is more or less ‘someone touched a bat’. Like who? Staff at a lab messing with bats?

You're accusing a specific person of involvement in a major pandemic with evidence you admit is flimsy at best, with little to no hope of ever confirming.

No I’m not accusing a specific person, I was pointing out that the US actually funded this research here domestically and the doctor went to Wuhan to continue her research when we closed the program as proof bat Corona virus was being studied there.

We will never be allowed by totalitarian China to collect evidence, so all we have is suspicion. Very justified suspicion.